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Key Witness is a 1947 American film noir crime film directed by D. Ross Lederman and starring John Beal, Trudy Marshall and Jimmy Lloyd.
Key Witness: Directed by D. Ross Lederman. With John Beal, Trudy Marshall, Jimmy Lloyd, Helen Mowery. Milton Higby, an inventor of gadgets that don't sell finds himself accused of a crime he didn't commit---the killing of a girl he had just met---, and takes to the open road with the police in close pursuit.
When his wife Martha leaves town to visit her sister, Milton Higby, a henpecked draftsman with a flair for inventing gadgets, accompanies friend Larry Summers to the racetrack. There Milton, a novice at horseracing, mistakenly places twenty dollars on the daily double but wins a small fortune.
Milton Higby, an inventor of gadgets that don't sell finds himself accused of a crime he didn't commit---the killing of a girl he had just met---, and takes to the open road with the police in close pursuit. In his travels, he stumbles across the body of another murder victim and switches identities with the corpse.
An inventor of novelty items (John Beal) is falsely accused of murder and steals the identity of a dead man. This is tagged as film noir on imdb, but it clearly is not noir. It's more of a light drama with a couple mild noir elements.
- D. Ross Lederman
- Columbia Pictures
Story. A man takes over the identity of a dead man while on the lam from a crime he didn't commit.
Key Witness (1947) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
